Google Knol !!!

Google comes up with yet another spectacular product in the form of Google Knol, as the name suggest google knol is a knowledge sharingsite. In short I would call the wikipedia of Google. But after a couple of views of the google knol, I would say that its more like squidoo. Knol is more author centric and has more articles in different areas of interest i.e it is not a encylopedia !!!

Some of the features of Knol is that Google uses a rich-text editor borrowed from Page Creator, so it's much easier to edit knols than Wikipedia articles. Users can rate the articles, add comments and write reviews, much like for scholarly works.knol provides open collaburation,moderate collaburation and closed collaburation . Google also provides the access to adsense to monetize your knol articles.

Though Google has a lot of products which is used for sharing knowledge and information (blogger,Google docs,Google sites). Knol targets the experts in different domains to shared their knowledege and make a hub for information which will
shared to the billions and trillions of users across the globe.


Happy Googling !!!

A Tribute to Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch a professor of computer science in CMU delivered an inspiring speech on "Really Achieving your Childhood dreams" was one of the best lectures of all time. It is really inspiring and thought provoking. Randy was diagonised of cancer at a late stage and passed away in 2008. Google also plays tribute to this great professor by adding a line in its homepage as "In Memoriam:Randy Pausch (1960-2008)" and here is the video for you. Randy Pausch- Really Achieving your Childhood dreams

IGoogle - Limited Edition !!!

iGoogle - Limited Edition

IGoogle is a feature rather a service I would call it from google which provides an integration of all the products of Google under a single web page. You log in to IGoogle and you are ready to check your gmail,google reader,orkut, orkut birthday links.IGoogle is found in the main page of Google




You can add a lot of useful gadgets that are inhouse or you can develop your own gadgets using the google api and make them available to the billions and billions of google users online. These gadgets range from world clock to stock tickers to photo sharing, games and quiz . The gadgets are spread across a wide range of areas from science to fun. You can have cool themes for your IGoogle pages and there is a tab option also available so that you can group your gadgets according to your choice. A view of the IGoogle



Now adding spice to the IGoogle, Google has provided a test version of the new IGoogle through sandbox where it groups all the features on the left hand side and makes you choose the service you wanted and that feature will be available in the right pane and all features of gmail are made available in the new IGoogle(only restricted features are available right now). The new version of the IGoogle is




You can chat, read your feeds, search,browse your mails and watch your youtube videos and do a lot of stuff, ain't Google doing a great stuff.Check out people its one of those features worth trying. Once again Google goes beyond search with a lot of creativity and innovation.

Trick of the Day !!!

One simple trick is we can read a mail in gmail and simulatneously compose a mail in another tab. A simple way of doing it is by pressing the shift button and clicking on the compose link, this will open the compose of a new mail in the new tab leaving the current window with the mail existing.

All praise to the Turbunator

The UPA got the confidence back this evening which paves the way for the much anticipated and much awaited Nuclear Deal which will get underway with ease now. The UPA led government was keen on the Nuclear Deal which made it lose their ally in the form of Communist, which let to a vote of confidence of the lower house of the parliament. The much confident and determined as always the prime minister of India accepted the challenge and was more confident of winning the votes. Though few of the parties didnt turn up for voting and the speaker being a communist didnt want to resign and a lot of speculations and controversies happening for the past one month UPA ended up with the winning note and here are the figures for you



Now how is this news related to this blog as the blog is related to techno - psycho stuff, Well the lesson from this winning note of UPA as we see is the confidence in you can do wonders, the confidence of the UPA chairman and the prime minister has made the govt come on a winning note, the confidence to face the challenge of the communist and the ability to withstand pressure and stay focused on the goal.

In terms of psychology , confidence of the inner self can do wonders. Hope you might have read about the power of your subconcious mind. So the winning of UPA is yet another way of saying that confidence in you can do wonders. Wanted to write a lot more but will come up with some other intresting topic

A Boom which is a disaster on it Own

As i read through papers on the morning of a calm sunday , I came across the engineering admission column which took me back to my days when i used to visit counselling website daily to check the status of engineering seats in various colleges and to gather information abt colleges. those breath taking questions in the engineering, those nervous moments of counselling and the hefty competion where i was left behind 300 people for a mere 0.70 marks, those sad moments when I saw irrelevant people taking IT as major, Finally i became an engineer and now working as a consultant in a very reputed firm in India. Though I am happy that I work in the field which I wanted to, I am also sad as of why my field has dragged a lot of potential engineers in the other fields by its fancy pays and hi-tech lifes.

I turn around my cubicle and I find bright civil engineers,production engineers, mechanical engineers from one of the best institutes of India where getting admission is like a gift sitting and programming. Why did they join Civil engineering just to sit and do some certification in Java or is it be there travelling in a software company bus. Those who are supposed to build great bridges and revolutions in the Indian Industry are sitting there finding out logic for technical problems.

When I sit and think as of why are these people leaving what they have learnt whole heartedly and got a gold medal in it are sitting and coding, Only two things stuck my mind

1. Money and Fame
2. Hi-fi life
3. A Trip to abroad free of cost

I felt these are the two factors that are driving them to this field, they feel that they get recognised in the society if they are called as a Software Engineer and they get hefty money as salary which their father only got when he retired.


Because of this hefty money they try to have a hi-fi life which never belongs to them and ultimately they spoil the society in which they live in

This is the most important driving factor which driving the whole of engineers to this industry " A Trip to abroad" a word which is more often called as "Onsite". Well I dont know how people see onsite as, everybody who joins an IT company wants to go to onsite no matter they have the skill, competency, talent, communication, nothing they look out for. they bluntly ask for a onsite

Because of this enormous recuirting by the IT companies a lot of talented engineers are lost by the other industries and the environment in an IT company is totally screwed by some irrelevant guys from other streams, the whole of engineering methodology is lost, Hope this recession makes a correction in the recruiting of really skilled people by the IT companies